Penn Southeast Installs Conference Minister Religion

Dr. Peter B. Doghramji of Havertown was recently installed as conference minister and president of the Pennsylvania Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ.

Doghramji becomes the spiritual leader and chief executive of the United Church of Christ members in the seven-county conference.

He was educated in mission schools of the Middle East and in American universities, and has been pastor to congregations in Syria, Lebanon and Pennsylvania.

He was ordained in 1955 and served as the first national president of Aleppo College, Syria, until 1966. He also served as associate professor of theology, field work director and secretary of the faculty of the Near East School of Theology, Beirut, and executive secretary of the Armenian Evangelical Union of North America, of which he is now moderator.

Most recently, Doghramji was an assistant to the conference minister and pastor of the Armenian Martyrs Congregational Church, Havertown.